In a word, GREAT. This is a great movie. Stunning, very suspenseful, surprising, incredible special effects and super acting. Our man, Mr. Nicholas Cage picked a winner this time. He is very convincing as an MIT professor who stumbles upon a number code from a time capsule that predicts disasters. The time capsule has been opened at his son's elementary school after being buried for 50 years. Envelopes inside, placed by the children 50 years before, are handed out to the present day students. His son ends up with the one that is the premise of this story.
Nicholas is John Koestler and he does a fine job of depicting this man as an intelligent, sad, intense man who is a good father and loves his son. He is a widower who drinks to blot out the memory of his wife's death and may have continued down that path except for the disturbing discovery that puts him on a path to prevent predicted disasters and to finally to discover the final disaster that will end the world.
Mind blowing disaster special effects. We were agog. I won't reveal what they are, but suffice to say, they are scary in their reality. There are deaths, but they aren't gory, so I didn't have to close my eyes.
Can John, his son and the woman and her daughter they meet save the world? Why are the two children so connected? Why is it that only they can hear the whisperings of the strange, tall creatures waiting in the fog and who are the strange, tall creatures waiting in the fog?
There's lots of fog in this movie that certainly adds to the suspense. Speaking of suspense, one of the best ways I've seen it depicted is used here. A car is being driven at night through a forest-ey place and you are looking out of the windshield seeing the headlights sweep the oncoming stark tree trunks, tall grasses and deep foliage. You are in anticipation of the headlights suddenly revealing a thing of terror - or emptiness, which can sometimes be more frightening.
This movie has some Biblical overtones, Hollywood style, of course. The end of the world, predicted in the scriptures, is very simlar to the one in this movie, but without certain embellishments that are extraterrestrial in nature. John's father is a minister and so there is a little spiritually related dialog there. As a side note, I have noticed that so many movies now are tinged with a dark spiritual atmosphere - it's strange and I don't know what it means about the people who make the movies and those of us who watch them although I do have some thoughts about it that I may share some other time.
Whatever the case, if you like an intelligently made, suspenseful movie filled with great characters, having excellent cinematography and fantastic special effects, see it. It's PG-13. This is not a movie for children.
You will be entertained.
Rating for "Knowing"
Here's the trailer:
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